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Julia Preston
In Trump’s Dragnet

Over the past two months, the president has been doing just what he promised during his campaign: assaulting every aspect of the US immigration system.

Adam Thirlwell
Rotten in Denmark

Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom is a soap opera about a hospital where the doctors aren’t good-looking or vibrating with noble sentiment but generally corrupt or insane.

Still

a poem by
Laura Kolbe

Tell me about the final day my body—
full as it’ll go without yet changing
size or shape, denser than it ever packed
itself, the last day of Body-Before
—will still not show, when mirror still
won’t mark how underflesh
has no reserve, no extra give or compress
left, the airless torso sedimented on…

Rowan Moore Gerety
Mozambique on the Edge

For months, the country’s people have been taking to the streets in the aftermath of a falsified election. Could the protests bring lasting change?

Natasha Wimmer
Rigorous Innocence

A new volume of essays and crónicas by the Argentine writer Hebe Uhart is often funny and sad in equal measure, as the stories follow her travels from Buenos Aires to Guadalajara.

Free from the Archives

Moses Maimonides was born on or about March 30, 1135, in Cordoba, Spain. In the Review’s September 25, 1986, issue, Arthur Hertzberg wrote about the legacy of a philosopher who “stood at the confluence of four cultures: Arab, Christian, Greek, and Jewish. More than anyone else, this single mind carried the main intellectual currents of his time.”

Arthur Hertzberg
The Return of Maimonides

“Maimonides’ fundamental observation about theology, both in the Mishneh Torah and The Guide of the Perplexed, is that, contrary to Aristotle, the world has not always existed; it was created by God. So he begins his code with the assertion that ‘the basic principle of all basic principles and the pillar of all sciences is to realize that there is a First Being who brought every existing thing into being.’”

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